Editing 2005 in science (section)

==Appointments==
* January 26 – The [[NIH]] announce that [[Elizabeth Nabel]] will succeed [[Claude Lenfant]] as director of the US [[National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute]].
* February 7 – The [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]] elects [[Ralph Cicerone]] as its next president, to begin his 6-year term on July 1. He takes over from [[Bruce Alberts]].
* February 25
** – [[Robert Kirby-Harris]] is appointed as Chief Executive of the UK's [[Institute of Physics]].
** – Keith Mason is appointed as the new head of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council in the UK.
** – Daniel Höchli is appointed director of the [[Swiss National Science Foundation]].
* April 13 – [[Michael D. Griffin]] is confirmed by the [[U.S. Senate]] as the next [[NASA]] administrator, succeeding [[Sean O'Keefe]].
* December 6 – [[Kaname Ikeda]] is appointed as first Director General of the [[International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor]].